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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5180, 13 November 1895, Page 2

The assets of the Masterton-Opaki f, .Tockey Club are £1,967 Is lid. y Alter we went to press yesterday the ci following results from Otaki came to T hand:—Utaki Plato: Princess Cole 1, c< i Miser 2; Kingslake 3; div. £4 ss, Bright y tHandicap: Yolta 1, Voltaire2,Thrush ut 3j div.£6]Cs. JiaukawaPlate: Wai- tl ngaottonra 1, Trickery 2, Mystical 3; m div. £1 18s. November Handicap: si Miser 1, Seabreeze, Titoki 3; div. £2 6s. tl Welter: Hillstonc 1; Trickery 2, Kings- rc lake 3; div. .£lO Lis. Flying Stakes: gi Voltiiiro 1, Seabrcezo 2, Puawai 3; div. ai £i. ai

The \lasterton Masonic Lodge will meet this evening. The Wairarapa North County Council sils to-morroiv. 1 . Wairarapa benevolent Society meet to-morrow morning. Mr A. King's swimming baths at Carterton will bo open to the public on Thursday next, , licv. Dr. Talmage has been left by t wis lute wife all lior means, nmonnting , to about £33.000, _ J3ig.gun practice on the English coast is said to so terrify lobsters that their claws drop off from sheer fright, 1 A meeting of the Thursday Cricket 1 Union Delegates is to take place at the i Club Hotel, on Thursday evening nest, Nominations for the office of Mayor . of Caiteiton, will be taken ontliclflth instant, and the election ou the 27th ' inst. The Scotch express was derailed the other day at Huntingdon and one lady -Mrs Macgregor of Marat, was killed, One thousand head of cattle have been purchased from Mount Cornish, Queensland, by a New South Wales firm at £4 , per head on the station. Between 1881 and 1893, the Chinese had decreased by nearly 1000 in the colony. Last year, however, thcinercase over departures was 135, A West End of London tobacconist s staled recently that fifteen pmnds of his weekly turnover came from lady . devotees of the soothing weed. To surprise a lady in America on her birthday, a brass band was placed in her parlor. As she entered tlic band struck up, and gave her such a start that she , fell in a lit and died. An exploration of the upper waters | or the Wanganui liivcr is to be made this month, with the view of ascertaining the cost of making the channel navigable for sixty miles north of Pipiriki. 1 The Masterton-Opaki Jockey Club started last year with a credit balance . of ,0111) 15s lid. This was increased .it the end of the year to £lOl Us fd. , Recently Mr T. Brown, of Mullabar station, South Australia, travelled over, land with 2100 sheep to Coolgardic-, losing only 20 on the way. _ lhc Court Star of IJcndigo was the lirst lodge of female Foresters ever ' tormed in Victoria, and the lirst anuiversiiry was celebrated last week. The lodge has a membership of 110. , The Babcock lest detected a Michigan man iu (lie act of delivering 1 watered milk to a creamery, and the culprit was promptly expelled from the ] Church to which lie belonged. A cricket malcli between Pnhialua ? and Wairarnpa, has been arranged to be played at Pahialua, on November ■lOth, and a return at Grcylown, after the New Year. Tlic German army is to spend 100,0W . marks lor bicycles. Two wheels are assigned lo each battalion for work formerly done by mounted orderlies. Perhaps the new woman is responsible for llie falling oil in marriages in Jing- ' land. For the first quarter of this year only 10' li persons in 1000 married, which is the lowest rale on record. The historic ruins of Kirkstall Abbey and grounds having been purchased by Colonel North for ,till,ooo, and presented to the (own of Leeds, have been opened lo the public. l'ivc hundred descried children are on an average annually loiindin the streets of New I'ork, and most of llie.se havelo be named, as llicy have no recollcciion or knowledge ol ialhcr or mother. A blind man, who had been (12 limes convicted, was sent to gaol in Edinburgh the oilier day for being drunk and (lisi orderly. While sawing up a huge oak on Earl t'owper s estate recently, a live toad was lound embedded jn the trunk, where it • must have subsisted for years on the i f: ?; 'lhc last week of September in Eng- , land proved not only by far the holiest week of the entire .summer, but also the holiest week ever recorded in Septciu- ( her since (herniometic records have been " kept. _ A Chester man who has just died had , been charged 130 times with drunken- . ncss and assaults, His father was . charged 85 times, one sister 07, and another sister 2'J times, tlic prosecution ol Ins family having cost the Chester ratepayers i'2ooij. lhc liev. A. C. lorkc delivered lhc second of ut scries of lectures to men in St. Matthew's Church last evening. The address proved interesting and instructive, and was listened to with rapt attention throughout by those present. ■ Another will be given next Tuesday cyening. Mrs W. K, Yanderbilt recently gave a magnificent ball in honour of the young Duke of Marlborough. The details read like a leaf from the diary of Cleopatra or a chapter from Ouida. Fabulous sums were spent in floral decorations. One item was a frieze of flowers in tlic supper room from which ill regular intervals showers of blossoms fell nearly to the floor. The Marquis of Salisbury, in his speech at lhc Guildhall, ridiculed the alleged liusso-Cliinese treaty. Great Britain, lie said, was equal to either war or peace, but, llie outlook was peaceful. Great Britain did not fear being excluded from the eastern markets. A girl in Yiborg desired to rid herself of her old lover, who was poor, to leayc herself free to marry one wlio had some means. In conjunction with her father and brother, it was decided lo murder him. The girl met her old sweetheart and proposed a walk lo sonic lonely woods, where lie was murdered by the father and brother, tlic girl looking coolly ou the while. Tlio murder remained a mystery until the brother, becoming conscience-stricken, confessed the crime. It is seldom one hears of a dog getting entangled in supplejacks in the bush, says the Ohscmr. An instance has just come to light, where Mr Humphnos, of Greytown, found his valuable dog, after having lost him a fortnight, still alive and entangled iu these vines in Huntley's bush, but the animal was so badly cut about that he had lo be shot, • The Baroness Jlolhsehild is reported to have paid a pretty, if somewhat exag. gcralcd, compliment to a prima dmiiui the other day, She invited a young lady to dine with her, and after dinner asked her to try the tone of her piano, Not a sound came from the keys when touched, ''l had the instrument unstrung this morning, mademoiselle," said the baroness, to show ' that the only pleasure I promised myself from your presence this evening was the ' pleasure of your society, ] The circumstances of Mrs Barnum's ' second marriage, which took place a few l days ago, were somewhat romantic. ( Mrs Barnum, who was much voungcr ; than her lirst husband, inherited a large fortune from llie celebrated showman. She lias recently travelled a good deal, f aud while climbing the great Pyramid with the assistance of Arab helpers one of the men slipped, and Mrs Barnum c fell backwards, and toppled over to v what seemed certain death. A stranger s toiling up the Pyramid ten yards below 1 caught the fulling lady iu his arms. „ That stranger was the Turkish Bey to • whom Mrs Barnum has just been quietly 1 married in New York. t A boy in tlio village of Lubec (Maine) [ when fifteen years old, went to his „ fathers field to catch a frisky colt. \\ lien about to place a halter about the ? colts head it kicked him in tho head. t( J he wound healed, but ho did not re- l 1 cover tlio uso of his reason. For 'ls o years lie continued to live in the village p until he reached the age of GO, when tl the local doctors determined to cxperi* if '? C lh " lat & portion of his , v skull had been forced into contact with [lie brain, they, by a skilful operation, " removed the pressure. Ho at once re- a ; wined his reason, and hisfirstulternncc ittcrwavds.• vtqs: "Did tbo colt get d iwiyP'"* . | gi

A man named Edward Keardon, ajred about forty years, fell doad in Welling. • ton, yesterday evening, Mr P. M. Hastie has opened a labor bureau m offices at the rear of Mr J. Williams shop in Queen-street. • A skull, supposed to bo that of a J Maori was dug up on Lambton Quay yesterday. J , Palmcrslon North is now going iu for nn autumn horticultural show. Tho spring horticultural show in that centre t appears to have collapsed. r T he decay of French population is one or the strange facts of contemporary history. Aot one of Franco's colonial possessions pays expenses, or shows signs of doing so. A Greek Catholic priest in a Huu- ( garian town preached on temperance recently, and made his congregation svi ear that they would not touch spirits for three years. Tho publicans have > protested to the Government against such proceedings. „ We hear that Mrs W.H. Beetham's meat safe was robbed last night. Not ,j only were its contents appropriated, but a meat dish and sou)) tureen also vanishes, e e A strike of tho Coolgardie telegraph c operators foran increase of pay tlircatcns lo lake placo to-night. Ministers state t " lc y M ' u surprised at the demands, .[ .we uuaware of any cause of complaint, llicy promise to investigate tho > matter if the men withdraw their demands. r ( r income from all tho missionary ! ( societies of the world is about 14,000,000 c dollars a year. The American Congress recently approved of an expenditure of U,000,000 dollars for three battle-ships aud twelye torpedoes 5 , Mr Kcir Hardie, the defeated Social. C ist leader, was invited to address the Methodist ministers of Chicago He b condemned the execution of the Chicago c anarchists who threw bombs into a band J of police. He said those men were the pioneers of a now social gospel. But r he had mistaken his audience, and had , to retreat before a storm of indignation, ; says the Outlook A rehearsal of Les Cloches de Conice villc was held last evening in llie Theatre r and was tho most successful yet held. A . meeting of the Committee was held sube sequentlj, when it was finally decided to present the opera to the public on the jj7tu, 28th and 29th of this month. Mr •' lliornton, the scenic artist, is expected ■ in Maslcrton in the course of a few days, but the Society have not yet made •my definite arrangements for painting the scenery required. n 0 Mr J, I'. Elliot, bookseller and r who has just purchased Mr r M s Alastertonbusiness, intends carrying on the business on thoroughly „ up-to-date lines, and all llie latest books .. and magazines will be kept by him. In , addition to this, Mr lilliot will make the supply of the latest music a special feature of his business, so that residents c in this district may be able to get their ; requirements supplied locally. Mr >' Elliot's enterprise deserves support and 1 we isli him success iu his new venture. ~ Another death of a patient under )• chloroform, occurred at llie Wellington hospital, yesterday afternoon. Mrs ~ Jessie Karl, of l'almcrston iVorth, who has been in the Hospital since October 12th last, was placed under chloroform 11 lo undergo an operation for an internal 4 complaint. Drs. Ewart, .lames, Pollen o and Anson, were present, and the eliloro- " form ivas administered, but Mrs Hart died within about three minutes of s becoming unconscious, Tho deceased li ivasi only 20 years of age. Her husband ;• is Mr Hart, of the Palinerston North lelcphonc Exchange. | One ol the drawbacks ol country life at ' least to the small settler, is undoubtedly tlio increased price lie has lo pay lor any articles ol clothing or general drapery, by reason ot the extra charges for freight or • carriage, Tliis drawback need exist no t longer, for extra charges are done aay 0 with under the new system which lias been . inaugurated at Tk Ano Hocsk, Wellington, ! Under this system, any of the puree's advertised, will he sent to any address iu New Zealand, rosr fhkk, the prices charged :l being exactly the same as those at which tin, • goods are sold over tlic counter in Wcls lington. As may ho imagined, however, J this liberal offer is only extended to cash , customers, and all orders for adverted r parcels, must be accompanied by cash for the amount, before the order can be executed at Tk Alio House, Wellington, e In illustration of this system, we will 1 give an example. Take lor instance No. 3 c Parcel, which contains 1 Lady's White . Mainsook lilouse, trimmed with embroidery t and with the new butteill/ collar; 1 Navy or Black Sateen lilouse, with white spots, new ' style; 1 pair of Black or Coloured Taffeta > Gloves,and 2 pairs of Ladies Clack Cashmere Ilose. This complete parcel will be sent. ; post free, to any address, ou receipt of 12/0' 3 from Te Alio Houss Wellington.—Anvi.